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Glossary
S sandbox
Thephysicalsystemfolderthatstoresruntimeuserchangestothevirtualapplication.Whenyoustartthe
application,ThinAppincorporateschangesfromthesandbox.Whenyoudeletethesandbox,ThinApp
revertstheapplicationtoitscapturedstate.Thedefaultlocationofthesandboxis
%APPDATA%\Thinstall\<application_name>.
sbmerge.exe
Autilitythatmakes
incrementalupdatestoapplications,suchastheincorporationofaplug‐inora
changeinabrowserhomepage.Thesbmerge.exeutilitymergesruntimechangesrecordedinthe
sandboxbackintoaThinAppproject.
snapshot
ArecordingofthestateoftheWindowsfilesystemandregistryduringtheapplicationcapture
process.
TheSetupCaptureprocessusesthesnapshot.exeutilitytotakeasnapshotbeforeandafterthe
applicationisinstalledandstoresthedifferencesinavirtualfilesystemandvirtualregistry.Seealso
postscan,prescan.
snapshot.exe
Autilitythatcreatesthesnapshotsofacomputerfilesystemandregistry
andfacilitatestheprescanand
postscanoperationsduringthecaptureprocess.OnlyadvanceduserswhobuildThinAppfunctionality
intootherplatformsmightmakedirectuseofthisutility.Seealsopostscan,prescan,snapshot.
snapshot.ini
AconfigurationfilethatspecifiesthedirectoriesandsubkeystoexcludefromaThinAppprojectwhen
youcaptureanapplication.Youcancustomizethisfileforapplications.
T template.msi
AtemplateforMSIfilesthatyoucancustomizetoadheretocompanydeploymentproceduresand
standards.Forexample,youcanaddregistrysettingsforThinApptoaddtoclientcomputersaspartof
theinstallation.
thinreg.exe
Autilitythatestablishesfiletypeassociations,setsupStartmenuanddesktopshortcuts,
andfacilitates
theopeningoffiles.Youmustrunthethinreg.exeutilitytoregisterexecutablefiles.MSIfilesautomate
thethinreg.exeregistrationprocess.
tlink.exe
Autilitythatlinkskeymodulesduringthebuildprocess.
V vftool.exe
Autilitythatcompilesthevirtualfilesystemduringthebuildprocess.
virtual
Referstothelogicalfileandmemorywithinwhichacapturedapplicationruns.Processesinaphysical
environmentcannotaccessthevirtualenvironment.Seealsophysical.
virtualapplication
Anapplicationthatyoucapturetomakeitportableandindependent
oftheoperatingsystemitrunson.
virtualfilesystem
Thefilesystemasthecapturedapplicationseesit.
virtualregistry
Theregistryasthecapturedapplicationseesit.
vregtool.exe
Autilitythatcompilesthevirtualregistryduringthebuildprocess.